WCB Music Writer
Jason Mraz
Love Is A Four Letter Word
Released - April 13, 2012
Producer - Joe Chiccarelli, Rick Nowels
In April of this year, Jason Mraz released his newest
endeavor and fourth studio album titled “Love Is A Four Letter Word.” It
followed the success of his last record released in 2008, “We Sing. We Dance.
We Steal Things.”
As we
experienced with the previous album, Mraz can serve the mainstream well, and
although he challenges his common ground this time around, he still delivers
tunes with his beloved pop-rock style.
The intro
“Freedom Song” is filled with jazz elements, including brass instrumentation.
The melody is hip and the back-up vocals hold nostalgic blues moments.
That
stylistic lean is found dispersed throughout the record. It pushes the genre
guidelines that Mraz as stuck between in the past. This has a positive and
negative impact. It is good to see the expansion. It can be hard to stick with
a musician’s career as fan without some form of growth involved.
Mraz has
always been great with love ballads, and for fans that cherish those songs
most; there is no room for disappointment. “The Woman I Love” is without a
doubt on a list of wedding song options with a flowing, dare we call sappy
lyrical melody (in a good way of course).
The fourth
track, “I Won’t Give Up” is by far the most popular single on the album. It is
a simplistic tune with soft guitar and powerfully inspiring words. Moving down
the tracks “93 Million Miles” is a heart-filled moderately paced song about
coming home (after all, home is where the heart is right?)
As the
album comes to a conclusion Mraz takes on a similar jazzy vocal style
comparable to Michael Buble in songs “In Your Hands” and “Be Honest.”
For fans
that have admired Mraz from the beginning this album will be a new avenue of
interest, and for newcomers curiosity is upon you.
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